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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Osborn, a passionate field biologist who participates to the core of her being three re-introduction projects aimed at saving three very different, endangered species: Peregrine Falcon, Hawaiian Crow (‘Alala)*, and California Condor. My only wish is that the book included photographs.

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American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Ontario: A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

2020, all also published by Firefly); children’s books and books on bird feeding. 2020, all also published by Firefly); children’s books and books on bird feeding. 2012), and (4) Waterfowl of Eastern North America, 2nd ed. 2012), and (4) Waterfowl of Eastern North America, 2nd ed. comparison tables!)

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The Kirtland’s Warbler: The Story of a Bird’s Fight Against Extinction and the People Who Saved It: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

A lovely looking and distinctive sounding bird (so they say, I sadly have not seen one…yet), the Kirtland’s Warbler can only be found during its breeding season in Jack Pine forests 5 to 20 years old in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. Fish and Wildlife Service endangered species list. photo by Lynn C.

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The Why of Ferrets

10,000 Birds

Audubon painted this new creature and wrote up a brief description, which went into his posthumous book and so out into the world. American scientists, realizing belatedly how embarrassing it was to know so little about a species right in the heart of their own continent, rushed to study this remnant population.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

10,000 Birds

“It was all in books,” he would later admit. And they were the ones who, at the end of the conference, decided to get together and talk about the possibility of breeding Peregrines in captivity as a way of at least saving the species from extinction.” The concern possessed him. I knew no falconers.

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KwaZulu-Natal

10,000 Birds

Orange Ground Thrush is a secretive mistbelt forest species that occurs in mid-elevation forests of KwaZulu-Natal, where it was first discovered by Thomas Ayres. Published in 1899, this was the first book on the region’s birds and the illustration shows Woodward’s Barbet, a species discovered by the brothers in Ngoye Forest.

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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

because, if the film rights to this book have not been snapped up yet, Hollywood is making a huge mistake) (c) Will I ever see a Blakiston’s Fish Owl? This book is the story of his search for his grail and what he does with it and why, a quest that took place from 2005 to 2010 in the Russian province of Primorye.

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